This is basic sys admin 101 stuff, but it made me so happy I had to post. And who doesn’t like a little PS 101? Case in point, needed to stop and disable several services. I could open services.msc, click on each one, stop, and then disable. Or I could use Powershell.
First, we need to get the services in question. Since they all start with the same name we can use a wildcard to get all services that start with Bey. Obviously we need to use the display name of the service, the actual service name usually isn’t anything close to that.
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Get-Service -DisplayName Bey*
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Verify the service names in the list Powershell sends back, now let’s pipe it to the Stop-Service commandlet.
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Get-Service -DisplayName Bey* | Stop-Service
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And finally disable the service from starting.
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Get-Service -DisplayName Bey* | Set-Service -StartupType Disabled
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Using Powershell I was able to stop and disable 10 services in about 60 seconds. I didn’t have any of these commands memorized, I just knew that Powershell had a Get-Service commandlet and they have lots of Ver-Noun commandlets, so why not a Stop and Set? And if you’re not quite sure, there’s always Get-Help. I like using -ShowWindow because it pops up a neat little window and doesn’t interrupt your work flow in the PS console.
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Get-Help Set-Service -ShowWindow
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